Bombing in the south of the tiny, crowded Gaza Strip killed scores of people overnight, local authorities said, and the Abu Marasa family is one of several Reuters spoke to that have concluded they may as well go back to their homes in the north.

More than a dozen members of the family were crowded into a car on the edge of Khan Younis, the main city of southern Gaza, their belongings strapped to the roof for the perilous journey back north through the bombardment.

“Why should we be martyrs in Khan Younis? We would better die as martyrs in our houses. Let the whole building fall on our heads,” said Saleem Abu Marasa, preparing to drive back.

  • @emax_gomax@lemmy.world
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    I agree wholeheartedly with religious governments can go f themselves but disagree on none of them should exist. If the holocaust demonstrated anything, when minorities don’t have national representation their oppression is ignored by the entire world until its too late. The Jews need some sort of safehaven. Claiming Israel was a bit of a dick move tho, although I’m more inclined to blame the British for just sorta washing their hands of the mess they made of this situation. Also sadly even today it isn’t entirely affective, the uighurs for example are oppressed and no one cares (perhaps because they don’t have an uighur government petitioning for release or freedoms, I’d hope Muslim countries would support them but their also pretty much all corrupt at the political level so who can really make the difference).